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Seeding in Sinnincr or Early Autinini. 

 The best success in seeding to clovers can nsuallj be connted 

 npon when the work is done in hite snmnier or very early 

 autumn. Dog days furnish ideal conditions for germination 

 and rapid growth. Clovers may be sown at this time either 

 alone or with grasses. If the field can be cleared, plowed 

 and thoroughly harrowed, it can be brought into the very 

 best possible condition; but where clover is to follow corn, it 

 is impossible to remove the corn in season to sow the clover. 

 Under these circumstances, seeding in corn appears to be the 

 best plan. The ensilage corn, since it is carried from the 

 field as soon as cut, furnishes conditions on the whole more 

 satisfactory than field corn, with which the young grass and 

 clover will be killed where the stooks of corn stand while 

 curing. In the seventeen years that the writer has had 

 charge of the college farm in Amherst, a good many acres 

 have been annually seeded in corn, and during this entire 

 period there has never been a failure. The cidture of the 

 corn should be level. A spike-toothed cultivator should be 

 used at the last cultivation, and the seed should be immedi- 

 ately sown. It will not need covering. The best time for 

 sowing in this Avay is usually between July 20 and August 

 5. It is desirable to sow the seed before the corn is so tall 

 as to make it difficult to swing the hand over it in sowing. 

 Those who have not tried this method of seeding appear 

 usually to fear that the stubble of the corn will be in the 

 way in harvesting the hay crop; but if the field be rolled the 

 spring following the seeding, no such difficulty will be expe- 

 rienced. Clover sown in this way in the corn becomes 

 thoroughly established before winter, it is very unlikely to 

 winter-kill, and it will give a full crop the following season. 



Selection of the Seed. 



The clover seeds upon our American markets appear 



usually to l)e of very good quality. European seed dealers 



have sometimes mixed specially prepared sand of a|)proxi- 



niately similar color and sizes with clover seeds; but, so 



